Ten plus years ago Grandpa was working for the Davis County School District. There had been talk about cut-backs and possible layoffs because of terrorist attacks on 9/11. Grandpa was the Landscape Architect working in the Risk Management Department and he had a feeling that his name was on the cutback list. He went to the Davis Education Association as a member to talk to Vic Arnold about what options he had since he was within a couple of months of qualifying for retirement benefits. He was hoping to work for the school district for another 6 years to get full benefits. There were still many family responsibilities with the youngest two children, Sara, 13 years old and Jarom, 11 years old still at home with missions, college and weddings ahead of us. The thought of losing the job short of retirement benefits was even more devastating.
The Education Association agreed that something needed to be done to preserve his rights being he was so close to qualifying. Mr. Arnold went the district administration representing Grandpa, he was able to secure a few more months employment so Grandpa could qualify for early retirement incentives along with three years of health insurance and receive his retirement benefits at this time instead of having to wait till his was 65 years old.
This was indeed a tremendous blessing because even though it was much less than he was earning monthly it would pay the house payment, house hold experiences and some food and we still had health insurance benefits for the family. We didn’t have any other debt so with the retirement benefit and our food storage the Lord sustained us for the next 18 months before Grandpa was able to find full-time employment with the State of Utah.
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